Defibrillators

In an automated voice, the machine guides the rescuer through the lifesaving procedure of jolting the ailing victim back to consciousness.

The Ontario government hopes to soon have more Gerry Phillips, government services minister for the province, has announced plans to put 250 There are currently 14 “I think you’ve probably heard or seen those examples all across the province, where, as a result of the defibrillator being available and somebody taking action, lives were saved,” said Phillips yesterday.

Phillips made his announcement at the Kingston terminal of the Wolfe Island ferry.

A few dozen Ministry of Transportation workers gathered to hear the announcement, many of whom already had training with the device.

“The first building we put them in had two lives saved within a month,” said Phillips.

The The $2,500 machines direct the user through the shock process and CPR.

There are also diagrams for placement and use of the machine.

The devices are used ...

Greatbatch’s sales of feedthroughs, which carry voltage to implantable medical devices, grew by 13 percent to $18.4 million.

The company attributed that growth to greater market penetration, while revenues from other medical components, including assembly products and coated electrodes, grew by 17 percent to $15.1 million.

Those gains were offset by relatively flat demand for pacemaker batteries, which increased sales by 1 percent, and a 10 percent drop in sales of the enclosures that Greatbatch makes.

The company’s commercial power supply business grew by 11 percent to $11.7 million, fueled by strong demand from the oil and gas, pipeline and military markets, Hook said.

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